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rnent at Howietown, near Stirling, Scotland, but when 

 grown the fish could not be distinguished from brown 

 trout. *" 



Dr. H. G. Preston, President of the Oxford Rod and 

 Gun Club, whose preserves are at Eastport, Long 

 Island, wrote me under date of March 29, 1891, as fol- 

 lows : "Brown trout eleven and twelve inches long 

 were caught last April and May, the growth from the 

 fry you sent me the year before." This beats any 

 growth that I know of. This club moved from Patch- 

 ogue, some sixteen miles west, to Eastport in 1889, but 

 had no fry from us until the next year; therefore the 

 age of the fish could not have been over thirteen to 

 fourteen months truly a marvelous growth. 



The following from ex-Commissioner, the late Gen. 

 R. U. Sherman, is of interest as showing that brown 

 trout have grown and bred in the Adirondack waters ; 

 not as large as elsewhere, and this is not surprising, 

 for those cold waters do not grow fish as quickly as 

 more southern ones where the temperature ranges well 

 into the sixties for over half the year : 



"NEW HARTFORD, N. Y., Nov. 13, 1890. DEAR SIR: 

 We have been taking at Bisby lately, in our spawn 

 gathering, quite a number of what I suppose to be 

 Salmo fario, and have already put on the trays 10,000 

 eggs. Some of the fish are of two pounds weight, but 

 the general run is from one-half to one pound. We 

 planted in Bisby lake 5,000 of the 5. fario fry, and 

 these fish, I suppose, are from that plant. Three or 

 four years ago we planted in a small spring pond flow- 

 ing into Bisby 10,000 fry of Loch-Leven trout from 

 eggs courteously furnished by you. The fry were very 

 hardy and vigorous, but we never saw one of the fish 



